Popular Mechanics: 110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years

Popular Mechanics ^ | December 10, 2012 | The Editors

[SeekAndFind]

This was made two years ago... see how many of them are closer to being reality.

[EEGator]

Horse poop on the 60 year prediction.

[Lazamataz]

Where is my immortality and my sexbot?

[EEGator]

Immortality...

Sexbot...

[EEGator]

I must atone:

[Squantos]

I’m guessing a BFR aka big friggin rock hits earth any day now and its back to day one for inovation......

[Boogieman]

“Scientists will discover direct evidence of dark matter.”

Bwahaha! You can’t discover evidence of something that doesn’t exist.

[Boogieman]

The Japanese are hard at work on your sexbot. They can’t walk around yet, but they are pretty good at lying on their back and faking an orgasm.

[umgud]

Using archived data, roadside sensors, and GPS, IBM has come up with a modeling program that anticipates bumper-to-bumper congestion a full hour before it begins.

Most commuters already know when certain freeways become slow moving parking lots on a daily basis.

[lee martell]

The possible advances in medicine, engineering and technology sound remarkable. However, nowhere in this lengthy report is there any suggestion on what 85% of earth’s inhabitants will be doing for a living. That fact of life has been given no consideration whatsoever. The old phrase was called ‘painting oneself into a corner’.

I will be too old (maybe) to care that much, but multitudes of people will need to have some short term, in your face reason for living, other than waiting for a new techy toy.
I predict there will be societies of people who defiantly chose to live as we now exist. Most people both work to live and live to work. This must be recognized as a legitimate human need, and not just joked away, calling them ‘Flat-Earthers’.

[xp38]

still waiting for my flying car too

[JPG]

· -One of us will celebrate a 150th birthday. Our money's on Keith Richards-

[SeekAndFind]

There’s a Twilight Zone episode for that somewhere.... :)

[jsanders2001]

[SoCal Pubbie]

I predict liberals will still embrace Keynesian economics, progressive taxation, and social justice a hundred years from now.

[tophat9000]

Real world.. on electric cars.. if you want to go long distance you will tow a gasoline driven generator

[right way right]

I want my flying car!!!!!!!

[Still Thinking]

It's never easy to predict the future.

Well, according to Back to the Future, we're supposed to start dressing like this:

[ctdonath2]

“· An ion engine will reach the stars. If you’re thinking of making the trip to Alpha Centauri, pack plenty of snacks. At 25.8 trillion miles, the voyage requires more than four years of travel at light speed, and you won’t be going nearly that fast. To complete the journey, you’ll have to rely on a scaled-up version of the engine on the Deep Space 1 probe, launched in 1998. Instead of liquid or solid fuel, the craft was propelled by ions of xenon gas accelerated by an electric field.”

And when this groundbreaking spaceship reaches its destination, the explorers will be greeted by their descendants who waited for better technology and got there faster.

[EQAndyBuzz]

How about something like roads that could generate electricity by the friction of car tires? Or picture all road surfaces that when paved they become solar panels? Wire them up to mini power plants. Or desalination plants that also act as batteries?